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Post by br26354 on Oct 23, 2009 22:44:14 GMT -5
!!!!!Battle of the Century!!!!!
Who would win in a cage match? Personally, my money is on the Cameron/Comfort team-up. Not because they are christians, but because I'm counting on the assumption that they fight dirty.
What about you guys. Would you like to weigh in on this completely irrelevant topic???
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Oct 23, 2009 23:02:05 GMT -5
 Convince me otherwise, please. Spammy bullshit goes in Thread Killer, ideally. |
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Post by lonelocust on Oct 24, 2009 19:53:43 GMT -5
Uhm, how exactly is that in any way SPAM? It is not advertising anything, making it not, you know, Special Purpose Advertising Mail. I am completely baffled. Maybe move it to General board of FSTDT Lounge (I've never been able to figure out the difference in the two topic-wise) if it's off topic?
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I think I'd go with Cameron/Comfort because they're younger. However, I think Hitchens is sort of a big dude, but I'm not sure. I'd need some stats before I placed my bets. And Cameron and Comfort are sort of inept, so their dirty fighting might do no good.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Oct 24, 2009 21:43:48 GMT -5
So that's where SPAM comes from. It's sort of undergone a memetic mutation. It's understood that when someone says "spam" & they aren't referring to the canned meat stuff, they're talking about useless content. So, back when we had the troll who kept making a million & a half topics that read "Faggots Burn in Hell," that was spam, even though it wasn't mail & it wasn't advertising everything.
Still, I agree with Nappy, this is AQF-level stupid, right here. Ah well, since I've responded anyway, I'm gonna go with Hitchins (whoever that is) & Dawkins, because Dawkins just gives off a crazy man vibe. He's also perfectly willing to piss off one of the largest groups of people in the world just because. I bet he knows like...Darwinian Karate, or some such shit.
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Post by lonelocust on Oct 25, 2009 1:13:33 GMT -5
I generally use "spam" to assume it's advertising in some way, even if not commercially. Trying to get you to follow a link, take a survey, click on your dragon baby egg or whatever. I'd call "faggots burn in hell" trolling but not spamming. But both terms have sort of meandered around.
Hitchens is another famous atheist debater, and sort of a douche, and way more aggro than Dawkins.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Oct 25, 2009 1:29:27 GMT -5
I can't remember the last time I've referred to "spam" as advertising. Damned bastardization of words.
Shit, all atheists debators are douchebags. I'm a douchebag. I've learned to accept this.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Oct 25, 2009 1:52:44 GMT -5
It is spam in that it is an utterly stupid, pointless topic that doesn't look (to me) to be worth the space it takes up. I'm not going to kill it because of my opinion alone, I just think it's a stupid pointless thread.
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Post by lonelocust on Oct 25, 2009 6:47:30 GMT -5
"I think this is stupid" has never in my experience been a de facto definition of spam. But I'm sure we're all entitled to our opinions.
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Post by br26354 on Oct 25, 2009 9:38:57 GMT -5
Wow, I'm gone for 2 days, and people are calling this SPAM? I was just having some fun... jeez. Yeah, maybe I posted it in the wrong forum, but Christ on a Bike, lighetn up..
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Post by davedan on Oct 25, 2009 19:59:36 GMT -5
Hitchens is a hard living motherfucker I reckon he would have some tricks up his sleeve but if it lasted for more than a few minutes he'd be out of breath
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Post by szaleniec on Nov 3, 2009 13:55:38 GMT -5
Dawkins and Hitchens can sometimes be douches (Hitchens in particular) but they have a hell of a lot more class about them than most of their opponents. Their pro-atheism books The God Delusion (Dawkins) and God Is Not Great (Hitchens) both make interesting reading, though neither is without its flaws.
By the way, all the acronyms for spam ("Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages" is my favourite) are actually backronyms. It was named after the Monty Python sketch.
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